Comment on No Basic AI Drives

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 20:05:37 GMT

Something that could take over the world seems to me to be the endpoint of a very long and slow route towards a thorough understanding of many different fields, nothing that one could stumble upon early on and by accident.

Humans are graduallly taking over the world. In IT the nearest thing we have see so far is probably operating systems like Microsoft's Windows. Interestingly, Microsoft's world domination plans seem to have been foiled by the US DoJ. A non-governmental intelligent machine seems likely to encounter the same issue.

Few seem to think about these anti-trust issues. If we are likely to face a corporate superintelligence, they seem kind-of significant to me.

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